Lot Essay
Lady Louisa Fortescue was the elder daughter of Hugh, 1st Earl Fortescue. She was married to William Westby Moore on 25 June 1863.
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MID-19TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN SATINWOOD LOW OPEN BOOKCASES
MID-19TH CENTURY
Each with a later rectangular marble top, with three adjustable shelves between canted angles headed with foliate scroll corbels on a plinth base, one written in ink on the top L.E.F. and indistinct pencil script and a part label ....&N.AU.X.C.S.,L.A260, the second with numbers written on the top and indistinctly written on the back L.E.F. LADY LOUISA FORTESCUE and bearing a label A.&N.AU.X.C.S.L.33
42½ in. (108 cm.) high; 54 in. (137 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20 cm.) deep (2)
MID-19TH CENTURY
Each with a later rectangular marble top, with three adjustable shelves between canted angles headed with foliate scroll corbels on a plinth base, one written in ink on the top L.E.F. and indistinct pencil script and a part label ....&N.AU.X.C.S.,L.A260, the second with numbers written on the top and indistinctly written on the back L.E.F. LADY LOUISA FORTESCUE and bearing a label A.&N.AU.X.C.S.L.33
42½ in. (108 cm.) high; 54 in. (137 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Lady Louisa Fortescue, before 1863.
Special notice
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